(en) Palestine-Israel, The military and para-military transfer terror increase and so does the popular struggle*

Date
Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:53 +0300

The transfer pressure in area C and the 1948 borders Negev intensify. The colonialist
settlers increase their terror backed by the Israeli state forces. The increased popular
struggle intensify too and the rightists call for harsher repression are lauder. Not all
involved with the grass root popular struggles are happy with the joint struggle with
Israelis, preferring to do without the relative immunity from harsher repression we
provide, and without our contribution for world public opinion. The ferment in the region
already decided that thing will not be the same but only popular struggle and
international pressure will channel the changes to the better.

Friday afternoon the demonstration start in Al-Ma'asara village to support the prisoners
in Israeli jails. The Israeli occupation forces blocked the entrance of village to prevent
the demonstrators from passing to their lands. Then clashes started between the
Palestinian people and the Israeli occupation forces and some of the people were injured.
Mahmoud al'aa elddin coordinator of the popular resistance committee said: "our
demonstration will continue and we will continue resist until we have our freedom and
peace in Palestine." When Mahmoud al'aa elddin start to talk the Israeli army started to
use violence against the people and tried to pushed them back to the village but the
demonstrators refused to go back and the army tried to arrest Mohammad brijia the
spokesperson of the popular committee in Bethlehem.
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Happy to report Silwad, after a period of relative calm, is now awake and fiercely
resisting the occupation and the theft of its lands by "settlers" from the nearby colony
of Ofra. The resistance was sparked by the savage beating of a 60-year-old Silwad
resident, Ahmad al-Zir, as he tended his land by Ofra colonists who fractured his skull
with and iron bar leaving him unconscious and necessitating emergency surgery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysZqJ2FxplEIsraeli settlers and Palestinian demonstrators throw stones at each other, after settlers
marched into the lands of the West Bank villages of Deir Jarir and Silwad during a protest
against construction on their land by members of the nearby Jewish settlement of Ofra on
May 3, 2013.
(Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
For more photos of today from Silwad, Quddum and Tel Aviv go @ http://bit.ly/5xDJ9n

Planned by a dedicated of Jaffa-based activists, a bus full of Palestinians and Jews left
clock tower square in Jaffa, heading to multiple main intersections adjacent to main roads
and Palestinian towns within Israel in order to mobilize and show solidarity with the
Palestinian political prisoners and their plight. The activists traveled to Taybeh,
Qalanswa junction, Baqa' al-Gharbiyeh, Kufr Qara', 'Ara, and 'Ara'ara, where they visited
the mother of the prisoner Karim Younis. They continued to the al-Lajun intersection in
front of Meggido prison, ending their journey in Umm al-Fahm.
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Jerusalem-AlKuds

The joint popular committee of the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Issawiya and At-Tur
invite you to join in a protest against home demolitions and land confiscation in East
Jerusalem. This past week, Israel demolished five Palestinian-owned homes in At-Tur.

When: Friday 3 May 2013, 12-2pm

Where: Meeting point at Augusta Victoria Hospital (Mount of Olives)

What: Following the Friday prayer, we will march together from Augusta Victoria Hospital
to the area of this week's home demolitions in At-Tur, where we will put up a protest tent.